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Right on cue as promised we announced a lot of important new versions in the vRealize Suite for cloud operations. I will list here a reference to all documentation and download sites. cloud automation in a separate update.

We are pleased to announce the General Availability of vRealize Configuration Manager (VCM) 5.7.3, a key part of the VMware vRealize Operations Management Suite that automates configuration management across virtual, physical and cloud environments.

Organizations can use VCM to continuously audit the configurations of VMware infrastructure (including VMware ESX®, ESXi™, vCenter, vCloud® Director™ and vCloud® Networking and Security) as well as Windows, Linux and UNIX operating systems. Configuration compliance can be maintained against internal standards, security best practices, vendor hardening guidelines, and even regulatory mandates.

This release delivers critical enhancements requested by our customers, field and PSO teams to improve vSphere support, speed time to value, and extend capabilities for OS configuration management.

Highlights of this release include:

Updated Platform Support for the VCM Collector

Installation of the Collector and SQL Server components on Windows Server 2012 and 2012R2 is now supported

Existing installations of VCM can be upgraded or migrated to Windows Server 2012 or 2012R2 as part of the installation process for 5.7.3

Added Support for New Versions of Client Platforms

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

CentOS 7

Oracle Enterprise Linux 7

vSphere 6 Ready

VCM 5.7.3 will support vSphere 6 upon its release

Support for older versions of vSphere is unchanged in VCM 5.7.3 (vSphere 4.0U1 and later)